The Gods Came Down.

He rather taxed the retentive powers of the memories of his audience when he said to them "you recollect the gods came down and made love to the daughters of men." To me there is something very obscure in this statement. It is difficult to discover the relevancy of the sentence, for he was then speaking of the Bible account of the firmament. But it cannot be to refresh their memories of any passage of Scripture, for there is no such sentence in it. I think he made a mistake, and told them they recollected something it was absolutely impossible for them to remember; for I believe they never heard that piece of history until he uttered it. It was in fact a piece of his own making. But I suppose those free and independent thinkers imagined they did recollect it; at all events they would doubtless take his word for it, and believe they did, because he said so. Those "trusting hearers" would never doubt their great apostle. Of course the Bible says something like that in page 12 sound; but very far from that in fact. You know it was a truth which would not fit well into the new structure, and Ingersoll shaped it down expressly to fit into a particular spot, and tried to daub up the roughness with his amateur mortar. It was no more a peculiar characteristic action than those remarks about